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Investment and resource policy under a modified Hotelling rule
Bazhanov, Andrei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
An extensive literature shows the importance of investment policy for sustainability of resource-based economies. The approaches of these studies are mostly based on theoretical results that examine the role of investments in a competitive optimizing economy. This paper extends some of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220101
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Investment and current utility change in dynamically inefficient economies
Bazhanov, Andrei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
An extensive literature shows the importance of investment policy for sustainability of resource-based economies by examining the role of investment in current utility change (CUC) for a competitive optimizing economy. This paper extends some of these results by analysing the dependence of CUC...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009402045
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UNFPA’s View on Population: an Economic Analysis
Alejandro, Cid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
Recently, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) published “State of World Population 2002” which holds a … reduce the fertility of Third World women. The purpose of this paper is to question the arguments and the underlying … money on reducing fertility rates and controlling population growth in the Third World, understanding the relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258603
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On harnessing natural resources for sustainable development
Mishra, SK - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
interrupted; ecological services are becoming disturbed. People now are transforming ecosystems throughout the world at a faster …. Attitudinal changes, the alteration of the world view and the habits of thought, are only possible by a proper and holistic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493591
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Re-Think Russian Investment in Southern Africa
Gerasimchuk, Ivetta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Russia’s direct investment of about USD 3 billon in Southern Africa over the past decade has placed before the country’s government and corporate sector two choices in the accelerating race among foreign investors into Africa. The first choice is to follow the established path of direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005052185
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Trends in Resource Extraction and Implications for Sustainability in Canada
Mariam, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
There is a disagreement on the concept, definition and application of the paradigm of sustainable development. The definition that has been accepted by many involves several components, and it is difficult to measure or quantify indicators. Depending on the structure of the economy, it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621515
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Property Rights on Biodiversity and the Pharmaceutical Industry
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
developing profitable business opportunities in the world's forest while preserving biodiversity and producing incentives for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621738
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An axiomatic approach to sustainable development
Chichilnisky, Graciela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995
The paper proposes two axioms that capture the idea of sustainable development and derives the welfare criterion that they imply. The axioms require that neither the present nor the future should play a dictatorial role. Theorem 1 shows there exist sustainable preferences, which satisfy these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836308
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Development and social security system sustainability
Burz, Răzvan-Dorin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In this paper we propose to investigate the link between economic development, social security system and the sustainability of the policies pursued by states. In doing so, we start from clarifying and summarizing the main ideas on the concepts of development and social security. Depending on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257786
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A Theoretical Approach for Dynamic Modelling of Sustainable Development
Ene, Corina-Maria; Gheorghiu, Anda; Gheorghiu, Anca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This article presents a theoretical model for a dynamic system based on sustainable development. Due to the relatively absence of theoretical studies and practical issues in the area of sustainable development, Romania aspires to the principles of sustainable development. Based on the concept as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869289